[p2p-research] Interesting books

[Roberto Verzola]

Thanks for calling attention to Marvin Brown's book on provisioning, 
Michel. There's another newly published book that I would recommend. 
Plenitude by Juliet Schor. We've got three recent books on the subject 
now: Schor's, Wolfgang Hoeschele's The Economics of Abundance, and 
William Dugger and James Peach's Economic Abundance. Then I would add my 
chapter on Undermining Abundance in the recent book Access to Knowledge 
in the Age of Intellectual Property.

Greetings to all,

Roberto Verzola
Philippines


Michel Bauwens wrote:
> Roberto, Kevin, and really, all of you,
>
> in the  context of provisioning just mentioned by roberto verzola
>
> I want to strongly recommend a book I just started reading, and which 
> reformulates the economy in precisely that way, and in my view, itś a 
> very important contribution to a p2p economics,
>
> its Civilising the Economy, A new economics of provision, by Marvin T, 
> Brown,
>
> strongly recommend
>
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Roberto Verzola <rverzola at gn.apc.org 
> <mailto:rverzola at gn.apc.org>> wrote:
>
>     I agree with you, Kevin, about non-State, non-commercial economic
>     activities. Commons are one example. Toeffler a long time ago
>     called it "prosumption" (production for consumption), I believe. I
>     have also come across a apt term, "self-provisioning". Perhaps
>     this classification suggests itself: State-provisioning,
>     market-provisioning, mutual (P2P?)-provisioning,
>     self-provisioning, etc. It also fits nicely into the definition of
>     economics as the study of society's provisioning process. Of
>     course, as you said, many do the activity not for its provisioning
>     result (which may just be a side-effect) but for the sheer joy of
>     doing it.
>
>     Greetings to all from Manila,
>
>     Roberto Verzola
>
>     Kevin Carson wrote:
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>